Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: While reading your very interesting article on Miller McClintock and his efforts to reduce traffic accidents (TIME, Aug. 3), I was very much surprised to learn that the State of Indi ana required 20 hours of driving instruction in high schools as a prerequisite for application for an operator's permit. I was 17 years old when I took out my first permit in any State. That was in the spring of 1935 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Because I was under 1 8 it was necessary for my father to sign my application with me. While he went...
Threading his way through congested Sunday traffic near Chicago last week, many a motorist with an automobile radio heard a voice interrupt the program with such comments as: "All motorists from Joliet bound for points east of Hammond should use U. S. Highway No. 6 to avoid a detour on Route No. 30 between New Lenox and Frankfort...
This advice came from a large transport plane circling over Cook County. In it, getting a bird's eye view of the area, were a county highway chief and a local judge. When either of them spotted a traffic jam below or detected excessive road friction due to accident or highway construction, he spoke into a short-wave radio transmitter, ordered police-squad automobiles to the spot or offered advice directly to motorists by means of a rebroadcast by Station WBBM...
...pleased were the two officials by the results of the new traffic control method that they announced it would be used every Sunday until the end of summer...
...passengers in 1935. Last week, the National Association of Motor Bus Operators announced that non-local bus lines had beaten this mark by carrying 651,999,000 passengers in 1935. An increase of almost 50% over 1934, it was the first time busses had handled more traffic than their biggest rivals. To keep pace with this new business, the largest U. S. bus line, Greyhound Corp., last week whelped the first 25 of a litter of 305 new busses, completely outmoding present standard equipment...